Neural mechanisms of infant learning: differences in frontal theta activity during object exploration modulate subsequent object recognition.
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SUBMITTER: Begus K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455734 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
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Neural mechanisms of infant learning: differences in frontal theta activity during object exploration modulate subsequent object recognition.
Begus Katarina K Southgate Victoria V Gliga Teodora T
Biology letters 20150501 5
Investigating learning mechanisms in infancy relies largely on behavioural measures like visual attention, which often fail to predict whether stimuli would be encoded successfully. This study explored EEG activity in the theta frequency band, previously shown to predict successful learning in adults, to directly study infants' cognitive engagement, beyond visual attention. We tested 11-month-old infants (N = 23) and demonstrated that differences in frontal theta-band oscillations, recorded duri ...[more]
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